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Demonstration Session Information

Demonstrations will be shown on the exhibition floor at the Hilton convention center (Golden Gate Ballroom, lobby level), next to the multimedia sessions. A PDF version showing barriers is available here.

Schedule

Morning: 9 am - 11:30 amAfternoon: 1 pm - 3:30 pm

List of Demonstrations

Standard Platform Demonstrations:

A number of standard platforms for mobility and manipulation in robotics research now exist, as both off-the-shelf commercial products, and research platforms with wide distribution.Several manufacturers have made available their platforms for demonstration.There are two benefits to this arrangement: demonstrators will not have to transport hardware, and the demonstrations will show the increasing use of standard hardware as a means of attacking advanced applications. The accepted demonstrations for this session are:

SP1 – iCub Learning a Cooperative Game through Interaction with his Human PartnerStephane Lallee, Ugo Pattacini, Lorenzo Natale, Giorgio Metta, Peter Ford DomineyStem Cell and Brain Research Institute, Bron, France, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, ItalyPlatform: iCubAbstract: A human can interact with the iCub by pointing and speaking together in order to learn, name and play with unknown objects on a table. User can then ask for more complex actions and “program” small games by instructing the robot with a shared plan.

The goal of the open research demonstration session is to give participants an open forum to present their latest developments on robotic systems and software. The accepted demonstrations for this session are:

OR1 – Kilobot: A Low Cost Scalable Robot System for Collective Behaviors (*)Michael Rubenstein, Radhika NagpalHarvard University, Cambridge, USAAbstract: The Kilobot is a low cost, easy to use robot, which is designed for testing swarm algorithms on hundreds to thousands of robots. We will demo robot operations, and sample behaviors on 100 Kilobots.

OR5 – Proxy Method for Fast Haptic Rendering from Time Varying Point CloudsFredrik Ryden, Sina Nia Kosari, Howard Jay ChizeckUniversity of Washington, Seattle, USAAbstract: This demonstration will allow users to directly “feel” physical objects imaged by a Kinect. They will be able to directly experience haptic rendering of both fixed and moving objects in real-time.

OR8 – The r-one: A Low-Cost Robot for Research, Education, and OutreachA. Lynch, J. McLurkinRice University, Houston, USAAbstract: We present the r-one: An advanced, low-cost robot for research and education.Come see autonomous multi-robot exploration, drive a mini-swarm, and write your program at programming stations.